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Personal Info

Born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1991. Moved to Wick when I was around 7 years old. Attended Wick High School until May of this year. Going to the University of Edinburgh in September to study a Masters Degree in Physics, allow I am thinking about changing this to Maths as recently I have started to enjoy maths more than physics... Sad, aren't I? I also play the piano and have achieved up to Grade 6 in both theory and practical, and will be sitting Grade 7 in both in June 2009.

You might also be interested to know that I am 6'4", and wear size 17UK (18US, 52EU) shoes.

Interests

Literature

• The Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy series by Steven Erikson (As of June 2009, I am 2/3 of the way through my 5th re-read... Don't judge me!)
• The Black Company fantasy series by Glen Cook
• The Durand Col series by David Keck
• The Prince of Nothing series (and the new one) by R. Scott Bakker
• All Tom Holt books
• All Stephen Donaldson series'

Music

• Tom Waits (the greatest every songwriter and musician)
• Counting Crows
• John Frusciante
• Greg Boerner
• Coldplay
• The Bravery
• The Killers
• Tim Minchin (who I am of to see in November 2009)
• Bob Marley
• The Blanks
• Muse
• Bruce Springsteen

Sports

• Chess - perhaps not a sport. Either way, I play chess on gameknot.com and my player stats can be found here
• Football - particularly Glasgow Celtic and the Scotland National Team
• Tennis - particularly Andy Murray
• American Football - particularly the Philadelphia Eagles
• Cricket
• Rugby Union - particularly the Scotland National Team

Grades and Exams

The following are from sitting SQA exams, and ABRSM exams.

Achieved Grades

Standard Grades

• English - 1
• Maths - 1
• Physics - 1
• Chemistry - 1
• Biology - 1
• Music - 1
• History - 1
• French - 2

Highers

• English - A
• Maths - A
• Physics - A
• Chemistry - A
• Biology - C

Piano

• Practical: Grades 1 through 6 (sat Grade 7 in June '09, waiting for results)
• Theory: Grades 1 through 6 (sat Grade 7 in June '09, waiting for results)

Current Studies

Advanced Highers

I've sat these, and will get the results in August 2009:

• Physics
• Maths
• English
• Chemistry

Family

Two parents and a sister.

Articles I've Created

My total edit count, and the wheres and hows can be seen here.

• David Keck
• The Slab Boys Trilogy
• Wick High School
• Foreign Races from the Malazan Book of the Fallen series
• Founding Races from the Malazan Book of the Fallen series
• Human Races from the Malazan Book of the Fallen series
• John Byrne
• Doing some writing for the WikiProject Novels newsletter

Articles I've Done Some Major Work To...

All the above, plus:

• Steven Erikson
• Andy Murray
• Malazan Book of the Fallen
• Malazan Empire
• Bernard Hill

Editor review

My editor review as of May 2009.

• The review.

Closing Thoughts

If you have a question, or just want to get in touch with me, leave me a comment on my talk page.

Alan16 (talk) 02:08, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

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